Homeland Security Investigations special agent Gerard Gannon is testifying today about the 2024 raid on Sean “Diddy” Combs’s home in the music mogul’s sex trafficking trial.
Gannon testified yesterday that 80-90 agents searched Combs’s Miami mansion last year. Agents found AR-15 rifle parts, baby oil and sex toys inside one of the bedroom closets, Gannon said. Forensic psychologist Dawn Hughes is expected to take the stand when Gannon is done.
Rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, is expected to take the stand later this week. He dated Ventura in 2011 while she was still involved with Combs. Ventura testified last week that Combs lunged at her with a bottle opener after he found emails between her and Mescudi’s staff during a “freak off.”
Sharay Hayes, an exotic dancer known as “The Punisher,” testified Tuesday about being paid to partake in as many as a dozen of Combs’ drug-fueled marathon sex sessions. Regina Ventura also testified that Combs threatened to release explicit footage of her daughter, Cassie, unless she paid him $20,000.
Combs is facing sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy charges. Combs was arrested in September 2024 as federal authorities alleged he threatened, abused, and coerced victims “to fulfill his sexual desires” between 2004 and 2024. Combs has denied any accusations of wrongdoing.
Court resumes with Homeland Security agent’s testimony
Court has resumed with Homeland Security Investigations special agent Gerard Gannon on the stand again.
Gannon helped plan the 2024 raid on Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Florida home. Yesterday, he said agents found AR-15 rifle parts, baby oil, sex toys and other items inside one of Combs’s bedroom closets.
Katie Hawkinson21 May 2025 14:25
Court resumes with testimony from Homeland Security Investigations agent
Court has resumed, with Homeland Security Investigations special agent Gerard Gannon on the stand again.
Gannon helped plan the 2024 raid on Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Florida home. Yesterday, he said agents found AR-15 rifle parts, baby oil, sex toys and other items inside one of Combs’s bedroom closets.
Katie Hawkinson21 May 2025 14:24
Forensic psychologist expected to testify today arrives in court
Dawn Hughes, a forensic psychologist, has arrived in court.
She’s expected to testify later today.
Katie Hawkinson21 May 2025 14:21
Kid Cudi will not take the stand today
Prosecutors have revealed they will not call Scott Mescudi, also known as rapper Kid Cudi, to the witness stand today.
Prosecutors said they emailed the judge late last night with the news.
Katie Hawkinson21 May 2025 14:18
Combs arrives in court
Sean Combs has now been escorted into the courtroom. The jury is yet to be seen.
Attorneys from both the defense and prosecution are speaking with the judge.
James Liddell21 May 2025 14:03
Judge at bench but no sight of Diddy
Judge Arun Subramanian has returned to the bench. Sean Combs, however, has not yet been brought into the courtroom, according to CNN.
James Liddell21 May 2025 13:50
Combs’s defense arrives at Manhattan federal court
Attorneys Xavier Donaldson, Marc Agnifilo, Jason Driscoll, Brian Steel, and Alexandra Shapiro of Sean Combs’s defense team arrived in court at about 8 a.m. – an hour before proceedings are expected to get underway.
James Liddell21 May 2025 13:30
Forensic psychologist who testified in Weinstein and R Kelly trials set to take stand
A clinical and forensic psychologist who specializes in sex trauma is expected to be called to the stand by prosecutors Wednesday.
Dawn Hughes has served as an expert witness in a spate of high-profile cases, including in the trials of disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, R&B artist R Kelly, actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere.
Combs’s former assistant George Kaplan and Kid Cudi are also expected to deliver testimony.
James Liddell21 May 2025 13:07
Why was Combs ‘angry’ with Kid Cudi?
Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi and Cassandra “Cassie” Venutura dated in 2011, while she was still involved with Combs.
Ventura, the prosecution’s star witness, testified last week about how Combs discovered her relationship with Mescudi. The 55-year-old music mogul allegedly found emails between Ventura and Mescudi’s staff on her phone during a “freak off.”
Combs then lunged at her with a wine bottle opener, according to her testimony.
When Ventura went home for Christmas that year, her family took photos of bruises she says Combs inflicted after she visited him to talk about Mescudi.
Ventura also testified that she used a burner phone to contact Mescudi because it would be “too dangerous” for Combs to find out they were talking.
She testified that Combs told her he would blow up Mescudi’s car: “Sean wanted Scott’s friends to see Scott’s car get blown up.”
Mescudi’s car was scorched between December 2011 and 2012. Combs denies the allegations and any wrongdoing.
James Liddell21 May 2025 12:12
In sketches: ‘Freak off’ escort and Cassie’s mother testify
James Liddell21 May 2025 11:40
